Workshop Descriptions

Workshop Descriptions

Learn to Raise Long-Term Sustainable Funding

Each workshop includes a year of follow-up telephone coaching for your team from one of our experienced coaches.

Benevon 101: Creating Sustainable Funding For Your Mission

Our signature year-long program, Benevon 101, will train and coach your team of seven to ten people to design and successfully implement a mission-based system for building community engagement and raising sustainable funding from individuals.

Two rigorous, fast-paced days of workshop sessions for your team of seven to ten people

Private telephone coaching with your team every eight to ten weeks following the workshop

Registration for the following workshops is restricted to Sustainable Funding Program members only.

Benevon 201: Cultivating Individual Donors

Registration to Benevon 201 is restricted to Sustainable Funding Program members only.

After your first year's success, your organization will likely be eager to move on to a more complete implementation of each component of the model. The only option for continuing with our process is to join Benevon's five-year Sustainable Funding Program, in which you case your second two-day workshop will be Benevon 201.

What will we learn at the Benevon 201 Workshop?

Benevon 201 is designed to more deeply integrate each component of the model into the long-term, daily life of your organization, with a focus on:

Cultivating donor relationships, including developing a Know-Thy-Donor Program for engaging prior donors in the model

Refining your Ambassador program

Asking one-on-one

Engaging your board

By the time you leave the workshop you will have:

Refined your Point of Entry Event and Point of Entry in a Box to ensure you are generating one Ambassador out of each Point of Entry

Created a plan for your second-year Ask Event that meets Benevon's five key metrics

What are the prerequisites to register for Benevon 201 Workshop?

Benevon 201 is for teams of eight to ten people from the board, staff and volunteers of a single organization that:

Has attended Benevon 101 in the past 24 months and has been using the Benevon Model successfully

Is registered in the Benevon Sustainable Funding Program

Had an Ask Event and submitted a completed Form for Success

Has fulfilled other Benevon 201 requirements for team composition

What are the requirements for Benevon 201 team composition?

All of your team members must have been trained at the 101 level (i.e., must be alumni of the 101 Workshop or the New Team Member Intensive).

At least three of your Benevon 201 team members must have attended the full two-day Benevon 101 Workshop with a team from your organization.

Any remaining team members who have not attended Benevon 101 are required to participate in the online New Team Member Intensive prior to attending Benevon 201.

Your team should consist of two to three staff members, two to three board members, and two to three additional volunteers.

One staff team member must be your CEO or executive director. This person cannot be your Team Leader.

Team Leader is a full-time development staff member who must attend each year's workshop with your team.

How do we sign up for the Benevon 201 Workshop?

The Benevon 201 Workshop is only available to groups already registered in our Sustainable Funding Program. Please contact your relationship manager or email us at info@benevon.com.

Benevon 301: Major Gifts—Moving Towards Non Profit Sustainability

What will we learn at the Benevon 301 Workshop?

Now into your third or fourth year of using the model, as a member of our Sustainable Funding Program, your group will be ready to:

Systematically cultivate your major donors, often for a formal capital or major gifts campaign

See the power of the model to develop a reserve fund or an endowment fund over the next five years

By the time you leave the workshop you will have:

Designed a major gifts campaign cultivating your current Multiple-Year Giving Society Donors

Designed your plan and timeline for integrating the principles of the Benevon Model into the culture of your board, staff, and volunteers

What are the prerequisites to register for Benevon 301 Workshop?

Benevon 301 is for teams of eight to ten people from the board, staff and volunteers of a single organization that has attended Benevon 201 in the past 12 months and has been using the Benevon Model successfully, and

Is registered in the Sustainable Funding Program, and

Has a minimum of 40 Multiple-Year Giving Society Donors

How do we sign up for the Benevon 301 Workshop?

The Benevon 301 Workshop is only available to groups already registered in our Sustainable Funding Program. Please contact your relationship manager or email us at info@benevon.com.

Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop

What will we learn at the Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop (BASW)?

Having experienced impressive results from major gifts, your group will now see that sustainable funding is within your reach. Each group's needs are different at this point in the process. Your organization may be ready to focus your individual funding needs in any of these areas:

Unrestricted operational funds

Major gifts

Capital

Endowment

Fully integrating the principles of the Benevon Model into the culture of your organization

In the highly hands-on Advanced Sustainability Workshop, coaches work closely with your group to customize the next level of implementation, focusing on specific financial benchmarks.

What are the prerequisites to register for our first Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop (BASW)?

Had a Leadership or Challenge gift that is equal or greater than highest level in Multiple-Year Giving Society.

Annual increase in major gifts of 10% or more.

At least 50% of money raised from the Benevon Model is non-Ask Event related.

What is our return on investment with the Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop?

Return on investment for the Sustainable Funding Program is that each year you will increase individual giving by a minimum of 10%.

As an example, if you raised 100,000 last year, you should raise $10,000 more.

How do we sign up for the Benevon Advanced Sustainability Workshop (BASW)?

The BASW is only available to groups already registered in our Sustainable Funding Program. Please contact your relationship manager or email us at info@benevon.com.

Benevon New Team Member Intensive

Who can register for the Benevon New Team Member Intensive?

The Benevon New Team Member Intensive is available only to team members from organizations that are currently participating in Benevon's Sustainable Funding Program.

What will I learn at the Benevon New Team Member Intensive?

This one-hour, online class provides the essential components of the Benevon Model for new individual team members. After completing this session, your new team members will be ready to join your team and actively participate in the implementation of your organization's Benevon plan for non profit sustainability.

Participants will learn the key components of the model, including:

Point of Entry and Point of Entry Conversion Events

Ambassadors

Essential Story

Personal Treasure Map

Ask Event Plan

The Cultivation Superhighway

Asking Naturally

Effective Teams

Roles for Board Members

How much does the New Team Member Intensive cost?

Bringing new team members up to speed on the Benevon Model is included in your five-year Sustainable Funding Program membership, so long as team members are from the same local office as your original team and will be doing their fundraising together at one Ask Event.

What are the prerequisites to register for the New Team Member Intensive?

Each participant must be part of an existing team that attended a Benevon two-day workshop within the last two years.

Engaging Your Board Workshop

Why did you create the Engaging Your Board Workshop?

One of the most frequent requests we receive is for customized tools and coaching for engaging the full board in the deeper culture change that the model brings about. In response, we decided to offer a one-day workshop that is designed exclusively for organizations in our Sustainable Funding Program.

What will our CEO/Visionary Leaders and board members accomplish by the end of this high-impact, one-day workshop?

They will have:

Assessed your board's current level of engagement

Determined key areas of focus to increase board engagement

Designed a specific plan for engaging your board in your organization's implementation of the model over the next year

What are the prerequisites to register for the Engaging Your Board Workshop?

This one-day workshop is designed exclusively for organizations in our Sustainable Funding Program.

Each team must include the CEO/Visionary Leader and a minimum of one board member. (No other staff members, please.)